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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume ii, Issue 28, 4 February 1867, Page 1

TO THE ELECTOLiS OP-TIIE MiOVLNCE OF NELSON. /^■RNTLEMEN— In announcing to you that it \JT is my intention to offer myself a* a candidate for the position of Superintendent when that office shall have i-ecome vacant by tliy retirement of Mr Saunders, I should perhaps apologise fur doing so in the absence of any formal requisition to that effect, signed by a number of the constituency. But my experience of political affairs leads me to attach but a moderate value to such documents, and I prefer to place myself unreservedly in your iiands, asking only for your unpledged and unfettered support it; after carefully weighing the qualifications of the various candidates who maypresent themselves, you are satisfied that you would best serve the interests of the community by giving it to inc. The gold-fields of the West Coast, to which we are indebted, directly or indirectly, for so considerable a portion of our revenue, will coivinue to call for unremitting attention on the part of the Provincial Government. The prompt, energetic, and prudent management of these j-old-fields by Mr Saunders has, as you are probably aware received my constant support as a member of the Provincial Council; and, as regards this part of the duties of the Superintendent, I should endeavor to carry out the po.icy which has been so ably initiated. I am however firmly convinced that the resources of the western district of the provin.-e can never be fully developed, nor the full benefit of those resources be experienced by t'ne community, until the projected railway from Nelson to Cobdcn and Westport has been constructed. The power to give land in payment for this most important work has been gran'ed to the Superintendent by an Act. of the General Assembly, but it remains to find contractors willing to undertake its execution upon these terms. To effect this object I should, in the event of my election, devote myself heart and mind; believing as 1 do, that its accomplishment is the one thing needed to relieve the province from the comparative stagnation which has so long prevailed, and to bring greatly increased prosperity to all classes of its inhabitants. I am well aware of the difficulties which have to be faced, and of the energy, determination, and perseverance which are required to surmount them; but I should set to work animated by the hope and belief that those difficulties can be overcome, and that the contractors, as well as the province, would be largely beueSttcd by the undertaking. While looking upon the West Coast Kail way a? the public work which, affecting as it doas so greatly the welfare of the province as a whole, claims the largest share of the attention of your Superintendent, there are others in which I have long felt deep interest, and which 1 should do my utmost to tarry into execution. Among*t them are the construction of a Dry Dock or Patent Slip in Nelson Harbor; the introduction j of Pure Water for the supply of the inhabitants ' of the City of Nelson, and the shipping of the Port, as well as for the prevention of calamitous fires ; and the erection of Bridges over the Waimea and Hurunui rivers. The active part which I have taken for many years past in pressing the value and importance of the Coal-fiel is in various parts of the province upon the attention of the Provincial Government and Co!i!i'ji!. makes it, I think, almost superfluous for me to assure you tlvit the Mibjeot 'vould meet with no neglect or indifference at my luiuis. My general political opinions must be so well known to most of yon, that 1 think it unnecessary to enter upon any expression of them in this address; but when the resignation of Mr Saunckrs has been officially announced, ! shall lose no time in visiting the various electoral districts, so as to stive the whole constituency of the province the opportunity of learning my views upon all subjects in which they Jeel an interest respecting them. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, OSWALD CURTIS. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. /GENTLEMEN,— Tt is my intention to become \JC a candidate for the Snperintendentship of the Province at the approaching vacancy. lam encouraged to take this step, not only from general considerations of the very large support accorded to me at the last general election for that office, but by the direct invitation of a large body of my then "friends and supporters, as well as by numerous requests on the part of those who did not on that occasion give me their supportHaving, so recently given my views on those questions of provincial interest on which it is necessary that a candidate should declare himself, I do not now feel myself called en to repeat them. The only important question of this character which has .since. arisen, is that of the railway from Nelson to the West Coast; and here I will merely say that no efforts of mine shall ever be wanting to the furtherance of a measure tending so incalculably in every way to the development of the various resources of the province and the increase of its prosperity. Awaiting those, opportunities that will soon occur for Mm fuller expression of my views. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen. You*' obedient servant, 16 24 - J. W. BARNICOAT.